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Does education prevent job loss during downturns? : evidence from exogenous schools assignments and COVID-19 in Barbados

Beuermann, Diether W.; Bottan, Nicolas L.; Hoffmann, Bridget - 2021

Canonical human capital theories posit that education, by enhancing worker skills, reduces the likelihood that a worker will be laid-off during times of economic change. Yet, this has not been demonstrated causally. We link administrative education records from 1987 through 2002 to nationally...

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Labor market turnover and inequality in Latin America

Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino; Narita, Renata Del Tedesco - 2023

This paper describes the patterns of worker turnover in selected Latin American countries and their implications for wage inequality. It documents a higher positive annual wage growth rate for job to job changers compared to stayers, due to turnover capturing the immediate gains from search...

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Born under a bad sign : the impact of finishing school when labour markets are weak

Regan, Mark; Roantree, Barra - 2021

This paper provides evidence that finishing school when labour markets are weak leads to poor subsequent labour market prospects, particularly those leaving school at younger ages. Using administrative register data from Denmark, we find that these scarring effects are larger and more persistent...

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Sources of displaced workers' long-term earnings losses

Lachowska, Marta; Mas, Alexandre; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2019

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The relationship between unemployment duration and education : the case of school leavers in Belgium

Lopez-Novella, Maritza; Duvivier, Marie - 2015

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Unemployment duration stigma and reemployment earnings

Belzil, Christian - 1995

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Employment gaps between refugees, migrants and natives : evidence from Austrian Register based labour market data

Jestl, Stefan; Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sebastian; … - 2019

This paper analyses labour market integration in Austria of non-European refugees originating from middle and low income countries for the period 2009-2018. We assess their probability of being employed in comparison to non-humanitarian migrants, European third country immigrants and natives. We...

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The labour market entry and integration of refugees and other migrants in Austria

Jestl, Stefan; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2023

This paper analyses the labour market entry of refugees and other (non-humanitarian) migrants originating from middle- and low-income non-European countries that arrived in Austria in 2014-2016. Specifically, we analyse factors that shaped the transition to and out of the first job in the...

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Do parents know best? : the short and long-run effects of attending the schools that parents prefer

Beuermann, Diether W.; Jackson, Clement - 2018

Recent studies document that, in many cases, the schools that parents prefer over others do not improve student test scores. This could be because (a) parents cannot discern schools causal impacts, and/or (b) parents value schools that improve outcomes not well-measured by test scores. To shed...

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Unemployment insurance in high informality countries

Espino, Emilio; Sanchez, Juan M. - 2013

Providing unemployment insurance is particularly problematic in countries with high informality because workers can … unemployment insurance savings account (UISA) scheme can be evaluated. The method is applied to Mexico, and the results show how … claim unemployment benefits and work in the informal sector at the same time. This paper proposes a method to evaluate …

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